Searching on Google reveals x2 code snippets. The first result is to this code recipe which has a lot of documentation and explanation, along with some useful discussion underneath.
However, another ...

I want my node.js server to run in the background, ie: when I close my terminal I want my server to keep running. I've googled this and came up with this tut, however it doesn't work as intended. So ...

I have installed Jenkins executable on OSX, but now I want to stop it running. Whenever I kill it, no matter how, it just restarts immediately.
I've tried using the exit command on the jenkins url:
...

So I have a daemon running on a linux system, and I want to have a record of its activities: a log. The question is, what is the "best" way to accomplish this?
My first idea is to simply open a file ...

I have a Java program that I'd like to daemonize on a linux system. In other words, I want to start running it in a shell and have it continue running after I've logged out. I also want to be able to ...

I wrote a program and now I am expected to convert it to a daemon. Since I am a noob and dont know anything about it, can you please tell me how can I do it or can you please give me basic tutorials ...

I am looking for the best way to make my desktop java program run in the background (daemon/service?) across most platforms (Windows, Mac OS, Linux [Ubuntu in particular]).
By "best way" I am hoping ...

I wish to create a background process and I have been told these are usually written in C or something of that sort. I have recently found out PHP can be used to create a daemon and I was hoping to ...

What is the best way to create a java application that can be run using ‘service’ on Linux? I was going to use the JSW available here, but cannot use the licence on that (licence is either GPL or it ...

I have a working rails app with a resque queue system which works very well. However, I lack a good way of actually demonizing the resque workers.
I can start them just fine by going rake resque:work ...

I am looking for the best method to run a Java Application as a *NIX daemon or a Windows Service. I've looked in to the Java Service Wrapper, the Apache Commons project 'jsvc', and the Apache Commons ...

I have to write a daemon program that constantly runs in the background and performs some simple tasks. The logic is not complicated at all, however it has to run for extended periods of time and be ...

I have recently completed the Wiki web development tutorial (http://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/). I had tons of fun and i would like to experiment more with the net/http package.
However, I noticed ...

I'm working on an online PHP application that has a need for delayed PHP event. Basically I need to be able to execute arbitrary PHP code x many seconds (but it could be days) after the initial hit to ...

In Linux i want to add a daemon that cannot be stopped and which monitors filesystem changes.
If any changes would be detected it should write the path to the console where it was started + a newline.
...

I would like to have my Python program run in the background as a daemon, on either Windows or Unix. I see that the python-daemon package is for Unix only; is there an alternative for cross platform? ...

I've recently started experimenting with using Python for web development. So far I've had some success using Apache with mod_wsgi and the Django web framework for Python 2.7. However I have run into ...

I have build a little daemon in Java and I would like to run it as a service under Unix (e.g. Debian 5). I have read, that there is a possibility of using a Java wrapper - but isn't there any other ...

I have 2 jobs I would like to run and they are dependant on Models in my rails application.
I added the ruby files in a separate folder called Jobs, that I have appended to the rail project.
Whenever ...

It is said that we cannot force the garbage collection process in java.
It's after all, a daemon thread.
But still sometimes, why we call the System.gc( ); function explicitly ?
Is it worth calling ...